Our research is based on the principles that remote sensing and GIS products can be used to understand how climate change is affecting remote places such as the Alaskan Arctic. 

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We understand that remote sensing products provide a significant reservoir of information but the applications can be limited where terrain is difficult to distinguish between. This is the crux of the problem that we are trying to solve - how can we resolve not being 'able to see' both through our own eyes and through a computer to being able to produce a ecologically/geographically correct depiction of the state of shrub expansion in the Arctic?